Keyboard key sticking
 

Hi All,

As well as the problem with my mouse wheel (see another post) it seems that my keyboard is having issues.

I'm not entirely sure if it is the Linux USB subsystem or xorg thats having the problem, but when I use the arrow and tab keys (seems to affect only them) to scroll pages up and down etc.. - they seem to get 'stuck' and repeat at high speed until I press something else.

This is intensely annoying, so hopefully someone will be kind enough to tell me how to fix this!?

Cheers.

Xorg here

are you sure these keys aren't literally sticky?

you could try adjusting the line in your xorg.conf, that will at least slow down the repeat key hits. I believe the first number is the delay (in ms) before the repeating starts, and the second number is the rate of repeat.

come to think of it, commenting out that line altogether might help. However, I believe KDE sets keyboard autorepeat itself, regardless of what it says in xorg.conf. in control centre, under peripherals-->keyboard you can find the KDE settings for autorepeat. I can't comment on how Gnome deals with this.

I'm willing to bet there's some goo under your tab and arrow keys though - autorepeat stops working once you press another key, even if you keep holding down the original key.